Photography & Portraits in El Cajon

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Oh My Dog!'s experienced photographers know just how to coax the stateliest pose from even the most mischievous of mutts. They'll capture the personality of your pet in just a few clicks. Sessions last up to an hour, providing plenty of time for water and snuggle breaks. Post-session, there will be a viewing session in which you will decide which picture is the most adorable. In addition to the included print, you can buy additional prints or upgrade to larger sizes. Check out some recent snaps on the Oh My Dog! blog. Bring in your four-legged friend for a shoot that will give him or her a chance to receive all the attention—in other words: business as usual.

Lauren Taylor lives in an orbit around the camera. As a teenager, she modeled in front of the lens. She later attended the Institute of Studio and Makeup Design, after which she would collaborate with photographers behind the camera. Lauren eventually gravitated to the camera itself, which she now wields with aplomb in her own photography studio. Here, her life-long experience and education converge in the work of shooting sumptuous and striking images.

Thanks to her time in the sights of the camera eye, Lauren has a particular way of making subjects feel comfortable. She especially enjoys sessions with other women, documenting expectant mothers or capturing sensual boudoir portraits. Otherwise, Lauren's newborn shoots capture babies in their most innocent state, before they learn to talk or knit a ski-mask. Lauren still exercises her eye for fashion, snapping stills for advertisements and industry headshots. She also documents weddings, taking a photojournalistic approach to event photography by capturing candid moments and emotional milestones.

PhotoBin's picture experts help those looking for a unique, easy way to share photos with family and friends to create conversation-starting photo books, while clients call all the shots. Users can choose the type of book they'd like, then add a page count and fill the book with their treasured photos. Users can modify the placement, size, and focus of each picture with the site's online tools. Wedding photos grab houseguests' attention when collected in a hardcover coffee table book, while family vacation slides look all the more appealing when printed in a softcover book or a colorful photo magazines.

PhotoBin protects and showcases customers' photos with scanning services, conversion offers, and customizable, full-color photo books. Customers seeking to preserve cherished or fading photographs can send their physical pictures to PhotoBin's digital transmogrifiers, who take each image, create an electronic copy, and burn them onto a CD, before sending the original shots and the new image disc back to their owners. The site also offers digital conversion services for videos, and scanning services for negatives, and slides.

The Boudoir Divas want to make the "ultimate supermodel experience" accessible to every woman, and the website's testimonial page offers happily tearful proof of that mission's success. For example, client Susan wanted to shed her everyday style for a day of flashbulbs and glamour. She starts her anecdote by describing the consultation she had in the jazzy, girly dressing room, and finishes her story by confessing that when she saw her prints, she cried. Susan described the experience as life-changing, saying, "it was just one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Second to my wedding."

Creating these unforgettable experiences is an all-female staff of photographers, makeup artists, and image editors, who run a 4,500-square-foot studio that houses a dressing room, more than 16 sets, and an area to review subjects' sensuous proofs. Spangled with vanity lights, the crimson dressing room is lined with a wall of shoes, and opposite, a wardrobe rack is strewn with leopard print, tulle, fringe, and lace, offering a variety of mix-and-match outfit choices. Numerous packages are available, and the Divas' portfolio is divided into Romantic, Supermodel Sexy, Fine Art, and Simply Beautiful categories.

Dennis Mock's self-proclaimed spontaneity and documentary spirit have earned him dozens of local and national awards from photographers associations and national camera companies. His background in sports photography allows him to capture split-second moments of joy or truly spectacular action passes of familial play, and his experience in architectural photography gives him a natural sense of composition—whether he’s at parks, beaches, or shooting a newborn session in his professionally lit studio. Before each shoot, he discusses costuming and venue choice with clients to decide how and where to best capture the earnest smiles of graduates and high school seniors, the savvy stare during business head shots, the doting looks of parents, the proud family and kid moments, and the uninterested glances of celebrity trees. When he's not out taking photos, Dennis is busy helping others hone their composition and lighting skills during photography workshops that cover everything from camera functions to digital editing and the importance of storytelling.